Empty Wardrobes

“A remarkable, necessary novel about women disposed of by men, about isolation and suspension and damage, with an acute perceptiveness that will pierce your mind. Dora, Manuela, Ana, Júlia, Lisa. These women will remain long after the middling men who have abandoned them fade away, as will Empty Wardrobes, finally, thankfully, translated into English.” —Amina Cain, author of Indelicacy

“A compact, merciless tragedy… I read this novel with something resembling a rapturous grief, as if I couldn’t believe this consciousness had finally been rendered in literature, the consciousness of so many women familiar yet unknowable, no longer muted, not saturated with sanctimony but alive, alive with rage transmuting disdain into hilarity by sheer force, alive with intense paroxysms of sadness.” —from the introduction by Kate Zambreno

"Maria Judite de Carvalho's fiction...provides us with a vivid portrait of our times, especially in the strange, slippery area of everyday life..." —Expresso

"Maria Judite de Carvalho will always be at the forefront of Portuguese literature, whether now or in two or three generations' time." —A Capital